More treasures from the Seaman Schepps archives! Here’s one of his notebooks documenting all the molds, castings, and parts in all of the jewelry designs. You’ll see that the modern day Grouper Brooch is based on an original rendering and casting!
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A few months ago, we posted about the Seaman Schepps bracelets discovered in Andy Warhol’s secret stash of jewels and watches. Look what was found in our archive of original renderings! It looks like this bracelet of diamond studded engraved stars and ruby accented hinges was originally designed for Mrs. Ernest Horvath. I wish I knew the story of how it ended up in Andy Warhol’s collection. Regardless, how fantastic is it to be able trace the design back to its origin? Pretty darn fantastic, I’d say.
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One of the designs that made Seaman Schepps legendary for his imagination is wit is the Jazz cuff bracelet! Can you believe believe it was originally designed/created in the 1930s? It’s absolutely of-the-moment nearly 75 years later.
Schepps designed a series of oversized “barbaric”-style bracelets. Here’s an original Seaman Schepps Cuff, c. 1944:
Seaman Schepps Jazz Cuffs, modern and vintage, are picture above. Clockwise from bottom left: A modern Jazz Cuff in sapphire and diamond; Cabochon and faceted emeralds with diamonds in yellow nad white gold, c. 1935; Cabochon and engraved emeralds, sapphires, and rubies with garnets and diamonds in white and yellow gold, which originally belonged to Mrs. Axel Wnner-Grem. c. 1940, now in a private collection.
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If there were a woman who was truly worth the title “heiress”, Doris Duke would have all the competition beat. In fact, she defined it. To go along with the headlines and the coterie of men, she had an enviable collection of jewels which included quite a few important Seaman Schepps designs that were exhibited as part of the Schepps retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Arts & Design in New York in 2004. Her true legacy was in the $1.3 billion fortune that was largely left upon her death to charitable foundations dedicated to medical research, prevention of cruelty to children and animals, the performing arts, wildlife and ecology.
While flipping through the September 2012 issue of Harper’s Bazaar, I was particularly pleased to see that Doris Duke is in the spotlight once again. How fitting that the Museum of Arts & Design in New York is mounting an exhibition celebrating her dedication to Islamic art and architecture through a showcase of the haven she had built for herself in the 1930s in Honolulu, Hawaii–Shangri La. The exhibition runs from September 7, 2012 – February 17, 2013. I can’t wait to see it and find out more about this fascinating heiress of all heiresses!
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“I passed by the store, saw it in the window, and just had to have it. So I went in and bought it for myself.”
Just a few days ago, a vintage Seaman Schepps necklace (circa 1950s) found its way back to our store. Isn’t it just absolutely gorgeous? Chock full of Read the rest of this entry »
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